boskage

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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

So was I but now dreaming here within this boskage how I might perchance win this same Beltane to life without thy scurvy aid, Black Roger.

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

The first angle made by the zigzags was thickly covered with a boskage of pines.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

The "marble muses, looking peace" might gleam now and then through its enskirting boskage, but that should be all.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar